That's how Michael Stipe once described his lyrics to REM's first chart single, 'Radio Free Europe', and many listeners would agree. Stipe, after all, has never been averse to employing a memorable title or an oblique, oddball phrase that has little connection to a song's meaning. Yet ...
The East Slovak National Theater was organized in Košice in 1945; the Slovak Philharmonic Society, comprising a symphony orchestra and mixed chorus, was established in Bratislava in 1949; and the Bratislava Quartet, later renamed the Slovak Quartet, was formed in 1945. Also founded in Bratislava...